Becoming Betty Boop

Comic-Con Museum

Betty Boop has been a cultural icon for nearly 100 years. In collaboration with Fleischer Studios, this one-of-a-kind exhibit embarks on a nostalgic journey, starting with Betty’s beginnings to her ...

Free – $25.00

Collaboration(s)! A Journey with John Jennings

Comic-Con Museum

Jennings is a consummate collaborator; he shares ideas, inspiration, and control with an array of co-creators. Jennings has no qualms with the creative process and instead revels in the results. ...

Free – $25.00

Art of Science

San Diego Natural History Museum (The Nat) 1788 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, United States

Data is beautiful and science has style—see the beauty that can emerge from scientific research. In collaboration with the UC San Diego Library, see the winners of the Art of Science ...

Wild San Diego

San Diego Natural History Museum (The Nat) 1788 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, United States

They call it the perfect city. With surf, sand, and superb weather, millions of visitors flock to San Diego every year. This oasis at the crossroads of desert and sea ...

Free

Afra Eisma: Hush

Institute of Contemporary Art Central 1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States

Through art making, Dutch artist Afra Eisma processes her own personal trauma and creates spaces for visitors to do the same. Vibrantly colored weavings and stuffed sculptures combine with handmade ...

Women In Focus

Museum of Photographic Art at San Diego Museum of Art 1649 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States

“Although the result is obtained by chemical means, the little work it entails will greatly please ladies.” So wrote one of photography’s inventors, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851), about his eponymous daguerreotype in 1839. Daguerre’s words, which ...

Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder: Where Science Meets Fiction

Comic-Con Museum

Attention, Whovians! Are you ready to dust off your sonic screwdrivers? Because the highly anticipated U.S. premiere of Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder: Where Science Meets Fiction opens on March 15, 2025. Step ...

Free – $30.00

Reconsidering Bierstadt: Kent Monkman

Timken Museum of Art

Reconsidering Bierstadt is the latest in an ongoing series of curatorial projects which highlight the relationships between cutting-edge contemporary art and the outstanding permanent collection of the Timken Museum of ...

Fashioning an Icon: Virgin of Guadalupe Imagery in Textile Design

Mingei International Museum 1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States

Inspired by her long history of depiction on textiles, these works explore the Virgin of Guadalupe’s endurance as an iconic cultural symbol fashioned through creative expression. Fashioning an Icon: Virgin ...

Student Craft 2025

Mingei International Museum 1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States

A juried exhibition of local high school student work What makes an icon? Drawing inspiration from concurrent exhibition Fashioning an Icon: Virgin of Guadalupe Imagery in Textile Design, high school students ...

Across the Spooniverse

Mingei International Museum 1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States

This exhibition presents over 100 spoons from across the globe, each a reflection of a specific cultural context–between intimate traditions of home and family, celebratory preparations of food and drink, ...

Historic Footprints: Native American Ledger Drawing from Fort Marion

Mingei International Museum 1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States

Ledger drawings, as they have come to be known, represent an adaptation of materials, styles, and images to continue telling stories and recording history. The mid-to-late 1800s was a period ...